COUNTRY FOCUS
The HID Global solution is aimed at any credential issuing authority who wants to adopt it and clearly who is ready to pay
for it, says Rob Haslam, Vice President and Managing Director, Government ID Solutions with HID Global.
The information
encrypted inside
the mobile ID
needs to be
readable by only
authenticated
readers
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“This means, that as a citizen, you only
give your details to those who need
to know them. Our security has been
designed in such a way that it uses
the most cutting edge cryptography
available. The HID Global solution is
aimed at any credential issuing authority
who wants to adopt it and clearly who is
ready to pay for it. This is not a solution
we would put on a web site that you can
download the solution and deploy it.”
A recent example is HID Global’s
mobile ID implementation of vehicle
registration licenses using the goID
and Seos platform for Nigerian Police.
The project envisages mobile IDs to be
issued along with physical licenses by
the Nigerian Police Biometric Central
Motor Registry. This government
application is currently being used to
capture biometric information about
Nigerian citizens at the time of vehicle
ownership registration followed by the
issue of the physical license. HID Global
has entered into a pilot phase with
the Nigerian Police to issue mobile IDs
along with the physical licenses.
Issuing of the mobile ID would follow
the same secure application process
as the physical license. The citizen
would be validated biometrically and
the mobile number would be verified
by SMS or email. On completion of the
procedure the mobile ID would be ready
to be transferred to the citizen’s smart
phone. However whether the mobile
ID holds all